Listening

Listening is a receptive skill that allows people to receive, interpret and save information from other people. This skill is so important in the communication system. However, we must take into consideration that spoken language is different from written language since when we speak we do not have time to organize our ideas previously, so we say things as they come to our minds. When listening we must consider the text types like conversations, stories, songs, lectures and instructions. Also we must consider the features of connected speech as speed of delivery and accent. 

Subskills depend on the purpose of the listening so they could be listen for gist , specific information it means getting dates, numbers and places. Listen for detail or to infer attitude it means listening to notice the attitude the speaker is expressing. 

When a teacher is making students practice listening in class it is necessary to follow a process 

• Pre-listening: Teacher can give students tasks like teaching new vocabulary or make them guess what the recording will be about by given them the title. 
• During listening: teacher can give students a worksheet to complete with true/false questions, taking notes , completing tables in order to check understanding and given them a purpose to listen.
• After listening it is good to ask students to talk about the topic they heard. 

Therefore, to listen information we must pay attention and hear what the speakers are saying, considering word stress, and intonation in order to avoid misunderstandings 

REFERENCES:

• Listening skills. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8EJVcRJSXo
• Mary Spratt, A. P. (2011). The TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Course Modules 1, 2 and 3. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press